Frederick Douglass: “I married soon after leaving you; in fact, I was engaged to be married before I left you; and instead of finding my…”

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.